A new work item on autonomous cars was proposed at the latest ITU-T Study Group 20 Regional meeting

Regional Group for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasia (SG20RG-EECAT) met in June in St. Petersburg. Proposals were made on advancing current work items on identifying moving devices in smart city and digital architecture to combat counterfeiting in IoT.

The new work item proposed at the Meeting was draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.CR-AV “Connectivity Requirements for autonomous vehicles”. This Recommendation will propose the requirements for connecting autonomous vehicles to the cloud real time platform. Additionally, it will contain the rationale for choosing communication channels and connection technologies that will ensure the safe operation of autonomous vehicles.

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Regional Group for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasia (SG20RG-EECAT) met in June in St. Petersburg. Proposals were made on advancing current work items on identifying moving devices in smart city and digital architecture to combat counterfeiting in IoT.

Nicolás Cendoya has held the position since 2013. In an interview with Convergencialatina, he assured that the role of the regulator is to enforce laws formulated by the Executive Power and that it is necessary to act with regulatory humility to get out of solipsism.

The initiative foresees the cleaning and rearrangement of bands in order to provide more spectrum to deploy 5G. Among priority actions will be the study of bands such as 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz.

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Flavia Lefevre, adviser to CGI.br of Brazil, was one of the clearest voices in demanding an ex ante regulation for countries with infrastructural deficiencies. There, Zero Rating options are restricting access to applications such as Facebook and WhatsApp, and do not allow the user to choose other competing content. The Red de Desarrollo Sostenible of Honduras referred to these practices as "digital assistance".